CCHR leads protest against American Psychiatric Association, citing billions of dollars wasted on coercive practices—deadly restraints killing children, forced treatment—and a system that harms ...

Forced community-based psychiatric treatment orders need to be banned. Right now, patients who refuse these may face criminal penalties, more forced drugging, or re-institutionalization, raising inter ...

Forced community-based psychiatric treatment orders need to be banned. Right now, patients who refuse these may face criminal penalties, more forced drugging, or re-institutionalization, raising… ...

Forced community-based psychiatric treatment orders need to be banned. Right now, patients who refuse these may face criminal penalties, more forced drugging, or re-institutionalization, raising… ...

The Boston-area’s Judge Rotenberg Center educates and treats enrollees ages 3 to adult, all of whom are struggling with severe emotional, behavior, and psychiatric problems, including autism-like ...

The recent U.S. National Archives release of thousands of previously classified documents collected as part of a U.S. government review into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 has ...

Until the passage of state laws in the United States making it a criminal offense for psychiatrists and psychologists to have sexual relationships with or even rape their patients, mental health ...

“There are many hazards with pre-emptive medical interventions, especially with such potent drugs as antipsychotics (which have been described as possibly the second most toxic chemicals used in ...

A landmark study has debunked one of the biggest mental healthcare marketing campaigns in modern history—that a “chemical imbalance in the brain causes depression” requiring antidepressants to correct ...

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT or “electroshock”) is a psychiatric procedure that is frequently used to treat depression and other mental disorders. Psychiatrists long ago got the idea that having a ...